infonet-economy

Drawing upon recent developments in "post-dramatic theatre", this article inquires how the aesthetics and art of theatre has been justified and used in the organisational context and tries to re-imagine possible relations between theatre and organisation. Referring to the simultaneously provocative and self-reflective staging of Dostojevski's "The Idiot" by the German director Castorf, we suggest to break up an all-too-easily established relationship between theatre and organisation and to demand that the "art" of theatre in organisations requires a performative demonstration that there is always an other way of organising. A carnivalesque relationship between theatre and organisation is conceived as a performative (and, hence, political) assemblage playing out hybridity, riskiness, and irony.